| When it comes to low back pain symptoms, it helps | | | | symptoms. Disks are supposed to be the cushions |
| to know the causes. While the result may be the | | | | between the vertebrae. If the disk bulges or |
| same in spite of of the cause, for some causes | | | | ruptures it can compress the nerve and be very |
| there are other options for lower back pain relief. | | | | painful. |
| Some are temporary while others offer more | | | | Osteoporosis is a disease where the bones become |
| permanent relief. | | | | brittle and porous. This can lead to an increased risk |
| The lower back has bones, ligaments, tendons, | | | | of fractures of the vertebrae, leading to severe pain |
| muscles and disks. Problems can arise with any of | | | | in the lower back. If the spine curves in a different |
| these things. Furthermore, in some people, no definite | | | | way, it can cause low back pain symptoms. One |
| cause is ever found. In those cases, relief is | | | | condition where the spine curves to the side is |
| independence from pain.o Strains | | | | scoliosis. If the spine curves too much in any of its |
| The most common reason for low back pain | | | | curves, it can cause back pain. |
| symptoms is damage caused by heavy lifting, a | | | | Arthritis in the spine can lead to many low back pain |
| sudden movement that jerked the back a certain | | | | symptoms if the person suffers from spinal stenosis. |
| way or strained back muscles or ligaments. A muscle | | | | This is caused by the arthritis narrowing the space |
| spasm in the lower back can also give one low back | | | | for the spinal cord. Arthritis can also be in the hips, |
| pain symptoms.o Structural Issues | | | | hands and knees. All of these conditions, once |
| There are some structural things that can cause low | | | | diagnosed, can be treated properly.o Serious |
| back pain symptoms. These include: sciatica, bulging | | | | There are a few rare yet serious conditions that can |
| or ruptured disks, osteoporosis and skeletal | | | | lead to low back pain symptoms. If there is a tumor |
| irregularities of the spine such as scoliosis, and | | | | on the spine, it can press on the nerve and cause |
| arthritis. | | | | back pain. If there is an infection in the spine, one will |
| Sciatica is caused by compression of a disk in the | | | | have a fever and warmth in the area of the pain. |
| spine pressing on a main nerve (sciatic nerve) that | | | | Finally, there is a neurological problem that can affect |
| runs the length of the leg. It is felt as a sharp, | | | | the nerve roots for the legs and lower back. With |
| shooting, pain, usually running through the buttock | | | | this condition (cauda equine syndrome) there will be |
| and down the leg. Sciatica can be felt as very severe | | | | weakness in the legs, loss of bowel and/or bladder |
| back pain. Disks that are not functioning the way | | | | control, and numbness in the saddle or groin area. |
| they should can cause a lot of low back pain | | | | |